Paolo Ardoino, Chief Technology Officer of the Bitfinex group, said: We are delighted to be the first company to be awarded this licence. It will enable Bitfinex Securities to facilitate the issuance and secondary trading of assets with clearly defined rights and obligations as outlined in the new digital asset regulatory regime. The new DASP…
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Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, said: With today’s increase in server capacity, we’ve beefed up the exchange’s front-end and back-end servers. This doubling of server capacity combined with the improvement to internal networking is likely the biggest upgrade we've had since we moved to our data center. We have an obsessive interest in technical improvement.…
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Macrobond, provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, revealed that Stockholm-based Erik Penser Bank is using Macrobond to deliver critical data and modelling tools to interpret market events. Erik Penser Bank’s asset managers mine financial, corporate, sustainability and macroeconomic data to help from their allocation strategies and tailor solutions for…
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Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, said: Bitfinex has time and time again stood out during episodes of extreme volatility as an exchange able to maintain an impeccable performance regardless of market conditions. This latest upgrade to the Bitfinex matching engine consolidates the exchange’s position as the pre-eminent platform in the digital token space. Rather than…
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Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, added: Bitfinex has established itself as the pre-eminent hub for institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space. We are pleased that Gold-i has chosen to offer its clients access to digital tokens on our platform. This is clearly an endorsement of the high-level of scalability, reliability and depth of liquidity available…
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The first set of data available on Bitfinex Terminal provides public trade data and it can be accessed through GitHub for free. The service is accessible by navigating to Advanced Features where the Bitfinex Terminal tab offers a link to Download Dazaar and connection to the Bitfinex Terminal. Dazaar Cards are cryptographic identifiers facilitating easy…
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Bitfinex offers the provision of algorithmic trading to its clients and through is collaboration with Koine, delivers a trading environment for institutional investors. It also provides fund managers with a separate custody solution while also maintaining continuous ownership throughout the trade lifecycle. With cross-venue operation and real-time settlement, with cleared funds, algorithmic traders can dramatically…
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Last week, crypto exchanges BitMEX and Gemini went offline for a short period during the market turbulence. The markets saw a plunge of bitcoin by 50 percent. During that time Bitfinex was able to process trading volumes of more than $1billion. Delchain Limited, licensed provider of custody, banking, capital markets an initial offering advisory solution…
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Two Israeli brothers, Eli and Assaf Gigi, 31 and 21 years of age, respectively, were arrested for alleged crypto thievery by authorities after an investigation that began in 2017. The strange thing about this case is that after a $1.7 million theft was confirmed, the two brothers, whether true or not, were soon implicated in…
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Management for Bitfinex and Tether had their day in court, which may have resulted in more disclosures than its executives may have wanted. While the beleaguered crypto exchange and stablecoin manager was alleged to have mishandled cash reserves for Tether’s “USDT” stablecoin, the revelations in the courtroom confirmed what had been rumored for months. Executives…
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